I was a judge at UFC 10-- the night Frye lost his title to Mark Coleman. It was still a tournament back then and in an earlier fight Frye was on top and really thumping his opponent. I was close enough to hear him say "You don't have to keep on" (meaning taking this beating) and the other man answered "Yes I do" and the fight continued.

When I first found them I saw a video clip without any introduction. My initial response was ??Combat Capoiera!!!The groundwork looks a bit bizarre. Then the group has turned up in the latest Black Belt Magazine issue. They have a following of law enforcement people, and the source of the method derives from military training, native american fighting, and other things.

In the Blackbelt article they talk about teaching balance, sensitivity, looseness and flow. They want to avoid body to body grappling and a lot of their groundwork is about evading grappling as much as possible.

Yeah. That was absolutely my initial response as well. When I see things like this, I try to look past some of what you might call "a bit odd" to see if there is some point that is worth looking into. In this case, when I watched the videos I was thinking of the multiple stab wound victims that tended to happen during the knife fighting when people went to the ground at the spring gathering? So whats the alternative to getting stuck on the ground (literally in this case)? What if you end up down and you KNOW someone has a knife? When I thought about it like that I started to wonder about this a little more seriously. I dunno.

"You see, it's not the blood you spill that gets you what you want, it's the blood you share. Your family, your friendships, your community, these are the most valuable things a man can have." Before Dishonor - Hatebreed

"You see, it's not the blood you spill that gets you what you want, it's the blood you share. Your family, your friendships, your community, these are the most valuable things a man can have." Before Dishonor - Hatebreed

Here are a couple of clips of Maestro Sonny Umpad along with some of his students training at his house. These are just the beginning of a series we are putting together to give a flavor of Sonny's work.It is a long process though because we all have hours of footage of our training sessions, and it's on VHS, so despite what seemed like accurate labeling at the time still means hours of review now to catch the neat stuff.

Great to see the show out there. You can tell that the YouTube post was accomplished with a camera pointing at a TV: 1) not perfectly horizontal 2) blueish tinge (camera not white balanced to bluer TVs)

"You see, it's not the blood you spill that gets you what you want, it's the blood you share. Your family, your friendships, your community, these are the most valuable things a man can have." Before Dishonor - Hatebreed

"You see, it's not the blood you spill that gets you what you want, it's the blood you share. Your family, your friendships, your community, these are the most valuable things a man can have." Before Dishonor - Hatebreed

"You see, it's not the blood you spill that gets you what you want, it's the blood you share. Your family, your friendships, your community, these are the most valuable things a man can have." Before Dishonor - Hatebreed

It is an eye opener. I would like to have seen what led up to it that made the driver get out, maybe bumped him with the car?

By the way the knifer adjusts his grip it appears that the knife is small. He definitely charged the guy. Lots of left sided body hits. The cab driver is in a tought spot due to the other guys reach being able to create striking distance. A clothing grab is tough to deal with...trying to release the grip, move, maybe counter...